Maud S. Mandel Dean of the College Professor of History and Judaic Studies Brown University, Box 1828 Providence, RI 02912 (401) 863-1149 Maud_Mandel@brown.edu Education Ph.D., University of Michigan, History, 1998 M.A., University of Michigan, History, 1993 B.A., Oberlin College, English, 1989 Professional Appointments Dean of the College, Brown University, 2014-2018 Professor of History and Judaic Studies, Brown University, 2014-2018 Director, Program in Judaic Studies, Brown University 2012-14 Associate Professor of History and Judaic Studies, Brown University, 2005-2014 Dorot Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies and Assistant Professor of History, Brown University, 2001-2005 Dorot Visiting Assistant Professor, Modern Jewish History, Brown University, 1997-01 Instructor, University of Michigan, September-December 1996 Completed Research and Scholarship Books Muslims and Jews in France: History of a Conflict. Princeton University Press, 2014. In the Aftermath of Genocide: Armenians and Jews in Twentieth-Century France. Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2003. Edited Books Colonialism and the Jews, eds., Ethan Katz, Lisa Moses Leff, and Maud S. Mandel. Indiana University Press, 2017. Chapters in books Jews and Modern European Imperialism, (co-written with Ethan B. Katz and Lisa Moses Leff), in The Cambridge History of Judaism, Volume VIII: The Modern Period, c. 1815 c. 2000, eds. Mitchell Hart and Tony Michels. Cambridge University Press, 2017. 1
Mandel Page 2 The Politics of Street Riots: Anti-Jewish Violence in Tunisia before Decolonization, in Colonialism and the Jews, eds., Ethan Katz, Lisa Moses Leff, and Maud S. Mandel, Indiana University Press, 2017. The French Jewish Community Speaks to you with One Voice : Dissent and the Shaping of French Jewish Politics since World War II, (co-written with Ethan Katz), The Jews of Modern France, ed. Zvi Jonathan Kaplan and Nadia Malinovich, Litmann Press, 2016. Simone Weil (1909-1943) for Thinking Jewish Modernity, eds. Jacques Picard, Jacques Revel, Michael P. Steinberg, and Idith Zertal. Princeton University Press, 2016. Winner of the National Jewish Book Award 2016, Anthologies and Collections The Encounter between Native and Immigrant Jews in post-holocaust France: Negotiating Difference, Post-Holocaust France and the Jews, 1945-55, ed. Stephen Katz. New York: New York University Press, 2015. The War Comes Home: Muslim/Jewish Relations in Marseille during the 1991 Gulf War, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in the Francophone World. New York: Routledge, 2010. Assimilation and Cultural Exchange in Modern Jewish History, in Jeremy Cohen and Mose Rosman, eds., Rethinking European Jewish History. Oxford: Littman Library, 2008. Genocide and Nationalism: The Changing Nature of Jewish Politics in post-world War II France, in Zvi Gitelman, ed., The Emergence of Modern Jewish Politics: Bundism and Zionism in Eastern Europe. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003. Faith, Religious Practice, and Genocide: Armenians and Jews in France following World War I and II, in Omer Bartov and Phyllis Mack, eds., In God We Trust: Genocide, Religion, and Modernity. Berghahn Press, 2001. Articles Transnationalism and its Discontents during the 1948 Arab/Israeli War, Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies, 12, 3 (Winter 2003): 329-360. Philanthropy or Cultural Imperialism? The Impact of American Jewish Aid in post- Holocaust France, Jewish Social Studies, 9, 1 (Fall 2002): 53-94. 2
Mandel Page 3 Review Essays Universalism, Particularism and the Struggle to Fight Racism in France: A Review of Aux Origines de l'antiriacsime: La LICA, 1927-1940, Yad Vashem Studies 42-1, (June 2014). One Nation Indivisible: Contemporary Western European Immigration Policies and the Politics of Multiculturalism, Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies 4, 1 (Spring 1995): 89-103. Book reviews Maurice Samuels, The Right to Difference: French Universalism & the Jews. Books and Ideas, 30 October 2017. ISSN : 2105-3030. URL : http://www.booksandideas.net/the- Universal-and-the-Particular.html. Sarah Abrevaya Stein, Extraterritorial Dreams: European Citizenship, Sephardi Jews, and the Ottoman Twentieth Century, Jewish History (forthcoming). Sam Moyn, A Holocaust Controversy: The Treblinka Affair in postwar France, The Journal of Modern History, 80, 1 (March 2008): 168-70. Joan Wolf, Harnessing the Holocaust: The Politics of Memory in France, The Journal of Modern History 78, 1 (March 2006): 230-2. K.H. Adler s Jews and Gender in Liberation France, H-France, (July 2004). Peter Balakian, The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America s Response, Brown Alumni Magazine (March/April 2004): 59-60. David Vital, A People Apart: The Jews in Europe, 1789-1939, The Journal of Modern History, 74, 3 (September 2002): 622-3. Jonathan Frankel, The Damascus Affair: Ritual Murder, Politics, and the Jews in 1840, Jewish Quarterly Review 90, 3-4 (January-April 2000): 489-492. Lynn Rapaport, Jews in Germany after the Holocaust: Memory, Identity, and Jewish- German Relations, Social Forces, 77, 4 (June 1999). Raymond H. Kévorkian, ed., L Extermination des déportés arméniens ottomans dans les camps de concentration de Syrie-Mésopotamie, (1915-1916), Armenian Forum 3 (Fall 1998). Christopher Simpson, The Splendid Blond Beast: Money, Law and Genocide in the Twentieth Century, Armenian Review 45, 4/180 (Winter 1992). 3
Mandel Page 4 Judith Friedlander, Vilna on the Seine: Jewish Intellectuals in France Since 1968, Judaism 41, 3 (Summer 1992). Other Publications Strange Journey: A Response to Shmuel Trigano, (co-written with Ethan B. Katz), Jewish Review of Books 6, 2 (Summer 2015), 47-8. Comparing Jewish History, Perspectives, The Newsletter of the Association for Jewish Studies 1, 2 (2000). Invited Lectures and Papers Read Is Fraternity Possible: Muslim-Jewish Relations in Contemporary France History and Reflections, Université Paris 8, January 17, 2018. Is Fraternity Possible: Muslim-Jewish Relations in Contemporary France History and Reflections, Einhorn Lecture, University of Illinois, March 27, 2017. Street Riots and Jewish Politics: Anti-Jewish violence in Tunisia before Decolonization, University of Illinois, March 27, 2017. Understanding Muslim-Jewish Conflict in France: A Historical Overview, Connecticut College, March 2, 2017. Understanding Muslim-Jewish Conflict in France: A Historical Overview, Yale University, December 8, 2016. Is Fraternity Possible: Muslim-Jewish Relations in Contemporary France History and Reflections, Manhattan College, November 15, 2016. After Paris: Antisemitism, Jewish-Muslim Relations, and the Future of French Jews, Emory University, March 28, 2016. Understanding Muslim-Jewish Conflict in France: A Historical Overview, University of Minnesota, March 31, 2016. The Birth and Death of French Pluriculturalism: A Tale of Muslim-Jewish Encounter," University of Minnesota, March 31, 2016. Antisemitism and Islamophobia in post-holocaust and post-colonial Europe An Entangled History, keynote lecture, On the Margins of the Holocaust: Jews, Muslims, and Colonialism in North Africa during the Second World War, UCLA on November 15-16, 2015. 4
Mandel Page 5 Muslims and Jews in France: History of a Conflict, Hebrew College, 23 April 2015. Muslims and Jews in France: History of a Conflict, Middlebury College, 12 March 2015. Pour une histoire relationnelle des musulmans et des juifs en France, Collège de France, Paris, 8 December 2014. Muslims and Jews in France: History of a Conflict, Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemtism, London, 15 May 2014. Legislating Difference: Outsiders and Insiders in late Third Republic France, Parliaments and Minorities: Ethnicities, Nations and Religions in Europe, 1848-1948, British Academy, 13-14 May 2014. Surviving Genocide: Armenians and Jews in 20th Century France, Holocaust Memorial Center/Wayne State University, April 2014. Muslims and Jews in France: History of a Conflict, Rhodes College, 24 March 2014. The Birth and Death of French Pluriculturalism: A Tale of Muslim/Jewish Encounter, Yale University, November 20, 2013. Jewish Migration and the Formation of the 'North African Jew': 1948-1956, Exodus or Exile? The Departure of Jews from Muslim Countries, 1948-1978, Yale University, October 4, 2013. Muslims and Jews in France: The Genealogy of a Conflict, Rutgers University, 18 April 2013. Muslims and Jews in 20 th Century France: Understanding Conflict, Yale University Hillel, 10 April 2013. The French Jewish Community Speaks to you with One Voice: Dissent, Marginalization, and the Shaping of Communal Politics around Israel, 44 th Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, December 2012 Colonial Policies, Middle Eastern War, and City Spaces: Marseille in 1948, University of Chicago, 5 December 2012. What's in a Riot? Tunisian Anti-Semitism, French Police, and International Jewish Politics in Tunis, June 1952, Jewish History after the Imperial Turn: French and Comparative Perspectives, Brown University, November 2012. 5
Mandel Page 6 Shaping Community from the Margins: French Jews and Leftist Politics in the latter half of the 20th Century, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 23 April 2012. Restoration or Renewal? French Jews after the Holocaust, Jews in France/ France and the Jews: 1945-1949, Boston University, 24 October 2011. Diaspora Identity in a Global World: Re-thinking Armenian and Jewish History in the 19th and 20th Centuries, University of Michigan, 15 October 2011. Is Fraternité Possible? Muslims, Jews, and the Palestinian Question in France, Jews and Muslims in France: The Challenge of Multiculturalism in Contemporary Europe, Georgetown University, 10-11 February 2010. Le conflit Palestine/Israel en France: Un regard sur 1967 et son impact sur les rapports inter-ethniques, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, 24 March 2009. Je suis un Juif; mes voisins sont Arabes: Les rapports entre les Juifs et les Musulmans à Marseille, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, 17 March 2009. Les rescapés du genocide: Une comparison entre les communautés juifs et arméniens en France au 20ème siècle, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, 10 March 2009. Each Algerian must Feel Palestinian : 1967, 1968, and Muslim/Jewish Relations in France, Ohio State University, May 2008. "Nemirovsky in Context: French Jewish life before and during Occupation," Wellesley College, April 2008. Genocide, Diaspora and Homeland: Comparing Jewish and Armenian Survivor Communities in 20th Century France, Bard College, March 2008. Beyond Antisemitism: Re-Thinking Muslim/Jewish Relations in France, UMass Dartmouth, March 2008. Jewish/Muslim Relations in France: The Significance of 1967, 39th Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, December 2007. The Arab/Israeli Conflict in France: Muslims/Jews and the Origins of Ethnonationalism, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 4 October 2007. 6
Mandel Page 7 Assimilation and Cultural Exchange in Modern Jewish History, UCLA Center for Jewish Studies and Hebrew College conference, The Blessing of Assimilation Reconsidered, February 11-12, 2007, Newton MA. Who Influences Whom? The Politics of Jewish Assimilation in France, Hebrew College, Newton MA, February 4, 2007. The Holocaust in French Historiography: Trends and Observations, Lessons and Legacies Bi-Annual Conference, 2-5 November 2006. Re-thinking Jewish/Muslim Relations in Contemporary France: A Focus on 1967." Cogut Center for the Humanities, Brown University, 23 February 2006. Rethinking Antisemitism: Jewish and Muslim Relations in Contemporary France, American Historical Association Annual Meeting, 5-8 January 2006. Re-Imagined Communities: The Impact of American Jews in post-holocaust France, Re-thinking European Jewry, Tel Aviv, Israel, 4-6 January 2005. Reconstruction or Renaissance? French Jews and the Post-Holocaust Years, French Historical Society Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, WI, April 2003. In the Wake of Destruction: Comparing Armenian and Jewish Survivor Communities in Modern France, Institute of Contemporary History and the Wiener Library conference, Generations of Genocide, London, UK, 26-27 January 2002. Integrating into the Polity: The Problem of Inclusion After Genocide Brandeis University, October 4, 2001. Rebuilding from Genocide: Comparing Ethnic and National Identities among Armenians and Jews in Modern France, American Historical Association Annual Meeting, 6-9 January 2000. "My Brother's Keeper: The Impact of American Jewry on post-world War II French Jewish Life," 30th Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, December 1998. The Strange Silence: France, French Jews, and the Return to Republican Order following World War II, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 15 April 1998. "Genocide and Nationalism: The Changing Nature of Jewish Politics in post-world War II France," A Century of Modern Jewish Politics: The Bund and Zionism in Poland and Eastern Europe, University of Michigan, February 1998. 7
Mandel Page 8 "Faith, Religious Practice, and Genocide: Armenian and Jewish Religious Practices following World War I and II," United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Conference on Genocide, Religion, and Modernity, May 1997. "Le Juif inconnu: France, French Jews, and the Legacy of World War II," 28th Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, December 1996. "Reconstruction or Renaissance: French Jews and the Post-Holocaust Years," 27th Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, December 1995. "Apatride ou refugié: The Evolution of Post-World War I French Refugee Policy," The University of Illinois Interdisciplinary Conference on French Studies, March 1995. "The Massacre of Ottoman Armenians and the Pro-Armenia Movement in France," University of Michigan Conference on The Sassoun Massacre: A Hundred Year Perspective, September 1994. Fellowships and Academic Honors Fellowships American Philosophical Society, 2009 American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), 2008-2009 Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, 2008-2009 Faculty Fellow, Cogut Center for the Humanities, Brown University, Winter 2006 Edwin and Shirley Seave Faculty Fellow, Pembroke Center, Brown University, 2005-6 American Historical Association, Schmitt Grant, Summer 2005 National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend Summer 2004 Watson Institute Middle East Research Initiative Grant, Brown University 2002-3 Solomon Research Grant, Brown University Fall 2002 Rackham Dissertation Completion Grant 1995-96 Hewlitt International Dissertation Grant Summer 1995 Mellon Dissertation Fellowship 1994-95 National Foundation for Jewish Culture 1994-95 (declined) Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture 1994-95 Mellon Candidacy Fellowship Summer and Fall 1993 Awards Herbert Katzki Award, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 2008 Women's Caucus, Association for Jewish Studies' Travel Award Winter 1996 Wallenberg Graduate Fellowship Award, University of Michigan Summer 1992 8
Mandel Page 9 Teaching Courses Taught Problems in Twentieth Century Europe Problems in Modern Jewish History Minorities and States Modern Jewish History, Society, and Politics The Jews: History, Culture, Religion, 1492-contemporary times The Jewish Problem: Emancipation and Acculturation into European Society History of the Holocaust History of Zionism and the Birth of Israel Muslims and Jews Becoming French: Minorities and the Challenges of Integration in the French Republic Memoirs and Memory: The Individual Experience of Modern Jewish Life The Jews in America Encounter Between East and West: The Immigrant Jewish Experience Women in Jewish Culture: Image and Status Comparing Genocide: Armenians and Jews in 20th Century Europe 9